Hot POP www.hotpop.com Reviews

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Average Ratings for Hot POP www.hotpop.com

  • Content1.1 stars
  • Ease of Use1.8 stars
  • Spam Protection0.7 stars
  • Reviewer Ratings0.6 stars
  • Overall Rating1.1 stars

15 Reviews For Hot POP www.hotpop.com

  • Guest 13th Dec 2008

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    I've had a free hotpop.com email address for a while and it has randomly stopped working for long periods at times. For the last year I have been trying to close my account with no success. To close your account you must enter the confirmation code generated in those little boxes designed to prove you aren't a bot. Well, the box never has a confirmation code in it when i have tried, all it ever says is "unavailable". Support tickets for help with this issue have been completely ignored.

  • Guest 13th Aug 2008

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    You don't get what you don't pay for. Well with free email you usually do, but not with HotPop. Maybe changing the name to mailstop.com would be a better choice.

    No shirt, no shoes, no service.

  • Guest 21st Jul 2008

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    Offline many days in a row, big delay on mail sending and forwarding, I believe more and more spam (not sure).
    I'm about to change my anonym freemailer and leave the hotpop.com platform for ever! I do not recommend Hot POP.com

  • gerto 20th Jul 2008

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    I am not happy with the Hot POP service I have experienced, Support does has not yet responded to remarks, Service down for days on a regular basis.
    I personally feel I have received no support.. in my experience the service has been down for long time and the mail delayed for days.
    It's free but not reliable better look for an alternative service.

  • Guest 4th Jul 2008

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    Off line a lot in my experience. Setting up an account and logging back in can be a pain for me. I don't like the userface design. It doesn't tell me I have to have a capital letter when you do the password. So it resets and tells me. So I put a capital letter. Then it tells me I don't have a number.. as required. So then again you go, round and round. Longest set up in my experience.. and now 1 year later, it is not working, which means I can't get password reset.

  • Guest 2nd May 2008

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    Often doesn't work for me personally. Mail delayed for weeks in my experience. As far as I am aware I do not see enough responses to complaints yet. Website barely works at all for me personally. Forwarding is hit and miss as far as I am concerned. Therefore I do nopt recommend HOT POP.com

  • brenth 27th Jan 2008

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    I get so much spam that the service is basically useless. I do not recommend Hot POP email address site.

  • Guest 20th Dec 2007

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    No such thing as a free lunch? Absolutely! Don't sign up with them unless you want Spam.

  • Guest 7th Dec 2007

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    It's fun that there is a free pop mail service (I only tried the free Hotpop service), but considering that it doesn't really work too well, a free Hotpop account is mostly just a 'novelty' e-mail and is not for any serious use.

  • Rophic 9th Oct 2007

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    Considering it's free I use my hotpop account for all those places I don't want to have my real email address.
    However, the service really is terrible and pretty unreliable.
    If you plan to use this email for authorizing accounts (i.e. If you sign up for a forum or something similar where they send you an email and ask you click the link to activate your account) you will want to consider alternative email companies unless you don't mind waiting a day or so to receive your email.
    Tech support ...

  • alhanusch 8th Oct 2006

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    The FREE service they provide is useless, unless you enjoy 40 ads per hour generated because of the FREE service. They are unresponsive to problems with the paid service. Once HotPOP got my money, I couldn't get them to answer any of my support questions.

    I paid 19.99 for an email service that I cannot use. HotPOP doesn't reply to my support emails or certified US mail.

  • buddehoff 18th Aug 2006

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    I've been using the HotPOP email service for several years, since Yahoo started charging for their POP email service.

    I had a free account at first, then I upgraded to a paying account to handle attachments. I authorized them to charge my Paypal account annually, as long as I had the paid service. I found out my ISP had POP service for no extra charge, so I tried to downgrade my account back to the free one. That was two years ago, and they just charged me for another year last month. I can't ...

  • Subbie556 Rank: Sergeant 1st Sep 2005

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    I am trying to set up my HotPOP account with Thunderbird still. Of course, HotPOP doesn't have a guide for Thunderbird, just Outlook and Mozilla...but anyway, I can get mail, but I can't send it. This is what HotPOP says for configuring the SMTP server: "*HotPOP's outgoing (SMTP) mail server requires authentication. The username and password are the same as the POP Server and website. Do not select "secure" password authentication." What the heck do they mean by "the POP server and website"?! Th ...

  • sofakingfree 3rd Apr 2005

    Reviewer rating: 2.5 stars


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    I have had my HotPOP (www.hotpot.com/index.jsp) for two years and they have been pretty reliable for a free service. But I don't know much about there company and I fear they may sell my information to other companies. I just wish I could get someone else to use there service so I could compare.

  • FrankiesLynne Rank: Corporal 15th Sep 2004

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    I took out an email account with hotpop.com in 2003, they charged me twice and it took a a good while to get a refund, I was beginning to think they were ignoring me.
    The service was so bad...incredibly slow mail server and often it didn't respond, that I cancelled the account and used a different service.
    This year ( a year after I cancelled my account with them) they took another years subscription from my paypal account without notifying me it was about to be deducted! Paypal told me when H ...